"I wish I had eight pairs of hands,……" — John James Audubon
"I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens."
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John James Audubon
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61 Quotes by John James Audubon
John James Audubon has 61 quotes on this site.
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
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During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
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Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day.
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In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part…
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Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.
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My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.
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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
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To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.
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I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime…
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
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On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me…
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When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.
— Paul Gauguin
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Some people believe that we go on living in another body after death, that we lived before. They call it…
— James Joyce
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These are only outer symptoms. Death is the transfer of the soul from one body to another body, or in…
— Rajneesh
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Time and movement became really crucial to how I deal with what I deal with, not only sight and boundary…
— Richard Serra
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I don't weigh myself — it's all about how I feel in my clothes. What looks good on one person…
— Christina Aguilera
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Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard…
— Unknown Author
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Many instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in another body, another place,…
— Stanislav Grof
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One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves,…
— Adrienne Rich
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The earth's warmth under me, as I stretch out at night, is astonishing. It is like the warmth of another…
— David Malouf
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I think the more rational explanation is that the excision of a five-to-six-foot leech from the surface of a human…
— Dave Sim
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In another life - and as I like to say, another body - I used to teach aerobics.
— Megyn Kelly
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Reincarnation doesn't simply mean that at the end of this life you will move on to another life in another…
— Frederick Lenz
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